Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-28 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > Try for artwork now (I fixed a typo). I have no logical explanation for > either a black screen or for no sound. Is the Show's firmware up to > date? Amazon recently fixed quite a number of bugs in the Shows. Or is > your Show on a different WiFi network/subnet to LMS? >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-28 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Favs 2 and 3 play but artwork is now the radio mast. > > Fav 1 (global player - LBC UK) no sound and black screen. Same for Fav > 4 (BBC World service) from BBC Sounds plugin.. > > Tested on Show 5 Try for artwork now (I fixed a typo). I have no logical explanation for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > You should now have icons for the /imageproxy/ favorites. Let me know > how it goes. Favs 2 and 3 play but artwork is now the radio mast. Fav 1 (global player - LBC UK) no sound and black screen. Same for Fav 4 (BBC World service) from BBC Sounds plugin.. Tested on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Thanks. Will be tomorrow before I can test. Will report back. Sure. The lack of audio on TuneIn might be a geo restriction when playing via Amazon (who knows where that server is located). Anyway? You can play any tunein station outside of LMS involvement by just saying

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > You should now have icons for the /imageproxy/ favorites. Let me know > how it goes. Thanks. Will be tomorrow before I can test. Will report back.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > It's the LBC UK stream via Global Player... > We need someone else to test the same Global link to see if it's me or a > general issue? You should now have icons for the /imageproxy/ favorites. Let me know how it goes.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
Paul Webster wrote: > It is a URL relative to LMS … so equivalent to > h t t p://lmshost:9000/imageproxy etc > > It is a built-in proxy in LMS that can reduce external lookups and > perform image scaling. Thanks Paul. That makes sense. I’ll just grab it from the url-decoded external path when

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > You should have audio for favorite 1. No idea why it does not play. You > do see the icon for that because it's > https://herald.musicradio.com/media/b2aee6ab-1883-4cb5-867d-8d7fcfa1c451.png > which is 'normal'. > > The icon for fav 2 is >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread Paul Webster
It is a URL relative to LMS … so equivalent to h t t p://lmshost:9000/imageproxy etc It is a built-in proxy in LMS that can reduce external lookups and perform image scaling. Paul Webster author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc), planetradio (bauer - kiss, absolute,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > TUNEIN for favs 2 and 3 > Fav 1 is a stream using the Global Player plugin - icon but no sound. > > All report as AAC. You should have audio for favorite 1. No idea why it does not play. You do see the icon for that because it's

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > I'll bet the offending favorite plays via an LMS plugin? The plugin > makes sure that the correct icon shows in LMS. But when streaming, > you're likely not going via the plugin and therefore losing the icon. > > TBH, icons are not that exciting for streaming anyway and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > Works fine on squeezebox. > > The artwork shown is a grey box with a music note (which on squeezebox > and lms shows as station logo or current track playing) I'll bet the offending favorite plays via an LMS plugin? The plugin makes sure that the correct icon shows in LMS.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > The Alexa app only shows an update when a certification round is needed > due to voice model changes. Nothing changed in the voice model in recent > months but the code changed a-plenty. > > When you say "no artwork shown" for the favs that actually player, what > was

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > I just tried with 2 different favs. Sound this time...no artwork shown. > Then back to fav 1 and no sound but artwork. > > I'm really confused - in alexa app the info says it was last updated 6 > months ago. The Alexa app only shows an update when a certification round is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
philchillbill wrote: > Do things work ok on regular Squeezebox players? Did you set an assumed > player? > > The logs show successful streaming of LBC1, which your Echo Show also > acknowledged with AudioPlayer.PlaybackStarted. It looks like you then > issued a STOP intent, correct? > > Try a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
castalla wrote: > > I tried 'stream favourite 1' on my Show 8. It loads the metadata screen > (nice!) but there's no sound > Do things work ok on regular Squeezebox players? Did you set an assumed player? The logs show successful streaming of LBC1, which your Echo Show also acknowledged

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread castalla
After a long break I reactivated Mediaserver... I tried 'stream favourite 1' on my Show 8. It loads the metadata screen (nice!) but there's no sound What could I be doing wrong?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-27 Thread philchillbill
V5.4 is now live, with the most important change being that artwork displayed on your Echo's Screen is now *persistent*. Every 6 seconds, the Echo polls the skill for an update of the artwork/metadata, increasing to every 2 seconds in the last 6 seconds of a now-playing track so as not to miss

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-21 Thread philchillbill
Tip: The Material skin looks better on an Echo Show in so-called -Desktop -mode (don't confuse this with Material's own Desktop/Mobile paradigm — this is a separate Amazon term). You can set the Show to default to this mode by going to Settings --> Device Options --> Web Options --> Browser -->

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-18 Thread philchillbill
https://vimeo.com/658138372 When you tap the cover-art image on a now-playing APL screen, MediaServer now launches the *Material Skin* on the Echo Show's screen, with full touch functionality. The address bar at the top can be swiped upwards to hide it. The player targeted in MediaServer will

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-16 Thread philchillbill
I made a short demo video showing the usefulness of the new touchscreen controls in MediaServer on the Echo Show 8" Gen 2. https://vimeo.com/657601012 philchillbill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-15 Thread philchillbill
28841 IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS, THE SKILL WILL PROVIDE ACCESS TO ALL COMMANDS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A SUBSCRIPTION, UNTIL JAN 1ST. ENJOY! p.s. to existing subscribers, apologies for the fact that the amazon isp process doesn't provide a means to credit or extend your subscription accordingly.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-13 Thread philchillbill
MediaServer V5.2 is now live, with heavily-revised APL content for Echos with screens. Almost all commands now support *touchscreen* interaction giving MediaServer *hybrid voice/touch control* for the best of both worlds (touch is only available under subscription). First off, the ImageList

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-04 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Vote number 2 from a big fan of the Alexa Show. The more touch > functionality the better to complement voice control, as we all have > become very touch oriented when presented with a screen. Do you intend > to make listing possible for other categories such as genre,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-04 Thread raglencross
Vote number 2 from a big fan of the Alexa Show. The more touch functionality the better to complement voice control, as we all have become very touch oriented when presented with a screen. Do you intend to make listing possible for other categories such as genre, year, album artist, etc.?

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-04 Thread staresy
philchillbill wrote: > https://vimeo.com/653170040 > > > Any thoughts on how useful this would be? Yes, definitely gets my vote. Having only recently got an Echo display device, it's the one feature that i thought it was missing. I was going to request it, but didn't think it was possible.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-04 Thread philchillbill
https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/653170040 Now that I'm getting the hang of APL, I can easily capture user-input from touchscreen Echo Show devices. See the above quick-and-dirty video, which shows a beta copy of MediaServer (called 'Playground', so I can test both the live and beta skills

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-03 Thread staresy
philchillbill wrote: > 36333 > > The NowPlaying screen display on Echo Show devices has been updated. > > Finally, there's a progress bar at the bottom of the screen (on larger > Echos, not the smaller ones) to show the percentage of the current track > that has already played. It does not

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-12-03 Thread philchillbill
36333 The NowPlaying screen display on Echo Show devices has been updated. Until now, this used a standard Amazon APL template intended to show an image and some plain text. It had the annoying characteristic of aligning against the right side of the screen when the text was short, meaning that

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-30 Thread philchillbill
MediaServer used to treat folders in your favorites hierarchy as unplayable items. However, I've just added a new feature that *queues all the sub-favorites in a folder* when you ask to play/stream a folder-of-favorites. You'll be told the name of the first child-item in the folder that actually

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-29 Thread staresy
philchillbill wrote: > I've created an 11 minute video that shows some of what MediaServer can > do these days when your Echo has a screen and coverart/metadata can be > displayed. Useful summary video showing a small subset of vast range of commands made available in this comprehensive

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-29 Thread philchillbill
I've created an 11 minute video that shows some of what MediaServer can do these days when your Echo has a screen and coverart/metadata can be displayed. https://vimeo.com/651080656 Enjoy! philchillbill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-26 Thread philchillbill
36260 Version 5.0 of MediaServer is now live and automatically deployed when you use the skill. The Amazon app will -not -list it as updated as there were no changes to the voice model — however, there are many, many changes to the code: * First off, most *spoken responses* are quite a bit

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-24 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
slartibartfast wrote: > The max2play version isn't related to the OS version. It could still be > years old. When did you first install it and which image did you use? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Its a few years old. Getting new sd card and will upload new image

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-23 Thread slartibartfast
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Running version 2.54. I'll try and update to the latest and install > again.The max2play version isn't related to the OS version. It could still be years old. When did you first install it and which image did you use? Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-22 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
philchillbill wrote: > I just downloaded a fresh m2p (m2p_buster_rpi-v253.img) and created an > SD for it. Selected 'Linux ARM' on the easy-setup page and transferred > setup.sh to my pi 3B using SmarTTY. When I ran the script *it installed > without errors*: > > > 36225 > > So the script (as

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-22 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > whatever version i download the same result. i also tried to download > through different machines. Same result. I just downloaded a fresh m2p (m2p_buster_rpi-v253.img) and created an SD for it. Selected 'Linux ARM' on the easy-setup page and transferred setup.sh

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-22 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
whatever version i download the same result. i also tried to download through different machines. Same result. wimsnijd...@onetel.com's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65753 View this thread:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-19 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Doesn't work. Switched off Kaspersky and downloaded all versions of > Linus script with the same result when running sudo. I pass on the worst > case solution of the binary as i am not confident on how to set that > up. > > thanks What does your max2play run

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-19 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Doesn't work. Switched off Kaspersky and downloaded all versions of > Linus script with the same result when running sudo. I pass on the worst > case solution of the binary as i am not confident on how to set that > up. > > thanks What does your max2play run

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-19 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
philchillbill wrote: > Looks like the downloaded ngrok zip is corrupt. Maybe run the script > again and see if it gets it on a second try? Your virusscanner might > somehow have messed up the file. Worst case, go to the ngrok site and > download the binary manually. Doesn't work. Switched off

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-18 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Gelukt, i am in. The password was wrong. Downloaded the Linux installer > and transferred to Max2Play to home/pi and ran the sudo. > But. > > What did i do wrong? Looks like the downloaded ngrok zip is corrupt. Maybe run the script again and see if it gets

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-18 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
Gelukt, i am in. The password was wrong. Downloaded the Linux installer and transferred to Max2Play to home/pi and ran the sudo. But. 36190 What did i do wrong? +---+ |Filename: Picture1.jpg

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-17 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Dank je, > > Problem is that i don't know how to access the max2play PI. I tired to > connect with filezilla but host does not connect. Try an ssh client (e.g. putty or SmarTTY) and login with username pi and password max2play.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-17 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
Dank je, Problem is that i don't know how to access the max2play PI. I tired to connect with filezilla but host does not connect. wimsnijd...@onetel.com's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65753

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-16 Thread philchillbill
wimsnijd...@onetel.com wrote: > Hi, > I managed to get the skill working on windows 11 for a day. Restart of > the laptop resulted in Kaspersky issues and tunnel lost. Now i want to > install on my max2play PI. > Anyone with a setup guide to get it running on max2play? > much appreciated.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-16 Thread wimsnijd...@onetel.com
Hi, I managed to get the skill working on windows 11 for a day. Restart of the laptop resulted in Kaspersky issues and tunnel lost. Now i want to install on my max2play PI. Anyone with a setup guide to get it running on max2play? much appreciated.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-16 Thread philchillbill
An old Amazon bug where an Echo would indicate STOPPED when actually PLAYING has resurfaced. This means that you may sometimes have to say stop or pause twice to actually stop streaming. It's not the skill's fault but if enough people have an issue with it then I can workaround. The problem with

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > From the logs, it looks like ngrok had died (somehow) after pushing the > updated details initially, so no tunnel was found at the latest known > url. When you re-ran the script, that update pushed the correct latest > ngrok url and so it worked. As with all things

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > Exactly the same. I opened updater.sh to edit the uuid and saw the same > string. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk >From the logs, it looks like ngrok had died (somehow) after pushing the updated details initially, so no tunnel was found at the latest known

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Don't see why that would matter. The skills are blissfully unaware of > your setup. When they fail due to an expired tunnel, they check my > server what your updater script pushed and update themselves with that > if the uuid matches. Are you sure the 'old' and' new'

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > So the mystery is why did the skills fail initially. Is it because they > were already linked when using the old server? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Don't see why that would matter. The skills are blissfully unaware of your setup. When they fail due to an

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Yep. You can run the new update script at any time and the message > should indicate success. Updating is always allowed, even if nothing > actually changes. Presume the new file is .sh?So the mystery is why did the > skills fail initially. Is it because they were

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > The old updater was python. Anyway just checked the new update script > and the uuid is exactly the same as on the old server. Does that mean > now it is linked the updater should take care of it in future? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Yep. You can run the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > Yes. There’s a link in the footnote in the easy-setup help. > > What language is your updater-script in (Perl, Python, bash, sh, pwsh)? > > Tip: note down your uuid this time in a notes.txt file [emoji41]The old > updater was python. Anyway just checked the new update

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
Yes. There’s a link in the footnote in the easy-setup help. What language is your updater-script in (Perl, Python, bash, sh, pwsh)? Tip: note down your uuid this time in a notes.txt file philchillbill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > If you do everything (download the script, link the skills) in the same > browser tab then localStorage takes care of it all. If you use different > tabs then browser security prevents leakage of localStorage so the > stage-tracking is lost. > If you just refresh the tab

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > The automatic linking doesn't work either it just tells me I need to run > set up. > I have since disabled both skills. Do I just need to link them and > insert the new uuid into the updater script? > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk If you do everything

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
philchillbill wrote: > If you retrieve the uuid from the script on your old install and paste > that into the script in your new install, you won't need to re-link. You > were very likely issued a new uuid when you re-did things, while the > skill(s) as linked expect to be updated using the old

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread philchillbill
slartibartfast wrote: > I have just made a new server installation on Raspberry OS Bullseye > having previously used Buster. This time I used the easy setup script > and everything went well as far as I could tell. > The final line logged was > "Skill (s) successfully updated with (new) tunnel

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-11 Thread slartibartfast
I have just made a new server installation on Raspberry OS Bullseye having previously used Buster. This time I used the easy setup script and everything went well as far as I could tell. The final line logged was "Skill (s) successfully updated with (new) tunnel details." Alexa tells me my ngrok

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-10 Thread philchillbill
Fixed a bug where specifying the name of a player embedded in a PlayPlaylist or PLayFavorite would not work unless an assumed player was defined. As a positive side-effect of the fix, the concept now scales to the use of the -Fetch -intent for Spotty Playlists and Spotty Podcasts.

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-07 Thread philchillbill
You can now specify a player name together with the favorite name when using the PlayFavorite command. Same is true for the PlayPlaylist command. :cool: If you say e.g. "Play favorite Radio Paradise *on the* Kitchen player", the bridge /(?:in|on)\s(?:the)?\s?/i will be used to split your

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-06 Thread philchillbill
If you request a non-existent nested favorite via the DOT syntax, the skill will now mention the name of the nearest higher-level favorite that -does -exist to assist with your counting. philchillbill's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-04 Thread raglencross
Well, I'll be damned, I never noticed that you could set the random mixes as favourites! The people who originated LMS and those who now maintain it have thought of everything. Probably why it continues to be my favourite music server for the last 20 years Just checked the audio vs screen

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-04 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > I have not tried "play some..." and "play something by..." (Overlooked > in a such a feature rich command set:confused:). They will do the trick, > save for by year and all genres. The former is not particularly > important to me, but I sure like to play my entire library

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-04 Thread raglencross
I have not tried "play some..." and "play something by..." (Overlooked in a such a feature rich command set:confused:). They will do the trick, save for by year and all genres. The former is not particularly important to me, but I sure like to play my entire library (i.e. all genres) when using

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-04 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > > > "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix" > This would randomly play/stream your entire library. > > "Play/stream -song/album/artist/year- random mix by -genre-". > This would randomly play/stream only the specified genre for your entire > library. Regarding

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-04 Thread raglencross
philchillbill wrote: > Sure. It would of course require a new Intent to be created and > therefore certification by Amazon. How do you envisage asking for it and > what exactly would it do under the hood? > > By the way, are you having issues with playing favorites by DOT > notation? I thought

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-03 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Would it be possible to implement play/stream random > song/album/artist/year mixes from your entire library, as you can do in > the LMS GUI by selecting all genres? Sure. It would of course require a new Intent to be created and therefore certification by Amazon. How do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-03 Thread raglencross
Would it be possible to implement play/stream random song/album/artist/year mixes from your entire library, as you can do in the LMS GUI by selecting all genres? raglencross's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-11-02 Thread philchillbill
Quite a refactoring to use Javascript's newish 'optional chaining' operator for de-structuring deeply-nested data-structures :D. While I was at it: * The NowPlaying handler for remote streams from Spotify, Qobuz, Deezer and Tidal has been rewritten to provide nicer results. * PlayAlbum and

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-31 Thread philchillbill
I've updated my Amazon Lambda function for MediaServer to use nodejs 14.x instead of 12.x. Please advise if you notice any anomalies. philchillbill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68920 View

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-29 Thread philchillbill
When -playlist_loop[0].type- is present in the JSON and has a value of *BBCSounds*, the skill will now respond to NowPlaying intent requests with `This is: '${artist}', on ${title}. ` -artist -seems to be populated with the programme name and -title- with the station name so hopefully this makes

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-22 Thread philchillbill
I've re-written the now-playing intent handler to more graciously handle missing tags. For local libraries, there are now 32 different spoken responses possible, depending on what combination of title, artist, album, albumartist and year are known. I'll add similar granularity to remote streams

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
slartibartfast wrote: > My Show 1st gen is 670680920 which is higher than shown on the list. > > Sent from my Pixel 3a using Tapatalk Same here... raglencross's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread slartibartfast
Paul Webster wrote: > That particular Echo Dot of mine is a 2nd generation model ... which > according to the Amazon list should be at version 670680720 but is at > 94320 ... implying perhaps that it will be updated soon.My Show 1st gen > is 670680920 which is higher than shown on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread Paul Webster
That particular Echo Dot of mine is a 2nd generation model ... which according to the Amazon list should be at version 670680720 but is at 94320 ... implying perhaps that it will be updated soon. Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
Paul Webster wrote: > Just FYI but one of my Dot devices (always connected) is at version > 94320 but that is not listed at > https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GMB5FVUB6REAVTXY Yes, that page is what I looked at to determine the up to date software versions and,

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
philchillbill wrote: > Interesting that it is the stereo pair that does not stream. I'll bet > they will stream individually if you unpair. > > From this post requesting that Amazon add a feature, it would seem that > it is a known problem that stereo pairs are not supported. >

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Thanks, Paul, for your suggestion. Per post 1006, the firmware on all 4 > Alexa’s are up to date. Two stream, an Echo Show and a Dot, and a Gen 1 > Echo and two Gen 2 Echoes in a stereo pair do not. Interesting that it is the stereo pair that does not stream. I'll bet they

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread Paul Webster
Just FYI but one of my Dot devices (always connected) is at version 94320 but that is not listed at https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GMB5FVUB6REAVTXY Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio france (fip etc),

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
Paul Webster wrote: > Might be worth checking the device firmware versions to see if there is > a match between failure and old/new version. > > One way to see it is via Alexa app/devices/device/settings (top right > cog)/About Thanks, Paul, for your suggestion. Per post 1006, the firmware on

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
philchillbill wrote: > I can see the retries in the logs and also see the successful attempts > to stream to your other Echos. Pity the retries don't help. > > I saw somebody somewhere on the Amazon dev forums saying that a start > offset other than zero milliseconds sometimes helps, so I've

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread Paul Webster
Might be worth checking the device firmware versions to see if there is a match between failure and old/new version. One way to see it is via Alexa app/devices/device/settings (top right cog)/About Paul Webster http://dabdig.blogspot.com author of \"now playing\" plugins covering radio

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Yeah, according to that link and others it leads to this problem has > been around for a while and is definitely an Alexa firmware issue, as > you have always suspected. The changes you have made there have not > solved the problem, so it looks like we will have to wait for

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread raglencross
Yeah, according to that link and others it leads to this problem has been around for a while and is definitely an Alexa firmware issue, as you have always suspected. The changes you have made there have not solved the problem, so it looks like we will have to wait for firmware updates to possibly

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-06 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > "http://raspberrypi:9000/stream.mp3?player=Alexa-OSP4A; results in > playback in the Chrome browser on a W10 PC with Alexa-OSP4A shown as a > player in the LMS GUI. With some Googling, I was able to determine that > the two offending Alexa's have up to date software (as do

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-05 Thread raglencross
"http://raspberrypi:9000/stream.mp3?player=Alexa-OSP4A; results in playback in the Chrome browser on a W10 PC with Alexa-OSP4A shown as a player in the LMS GUI. With some Googling, I was able to determine that the two offending Alexa's have up to date software (as do the 2 working ones), but

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-04 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Thanks, Phil, for checking your logs and suggestions. Short of a > complete reinstall of LMS, I have tried all the usual restarts/power > off-on for the problematic Alexa's and LMS, even updating and restarting > the Raspberry Pi hosting LMS with no success. The devices in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-04 Thread raglencross
Thanks, Phil, for checking your logs and suggestions. Short of a complete reinstall of LMS, I have tried all the usual restarts/power off-on for the problematic Alexa's and LMS, even updating and restarting the Raspberry Pi hosting LMS with no success. The devices in question behave normally in

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-03 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Would you look at your logs there at the indicated time and see if you > can figure out what is the problem? What I see in the logs is Code: "request": { "type": "AudioPlayer.PlaybackFailed", "requestId":

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-10-03 Thread raglencross
Around 16:10 UTC, I tried streaming from 4 alexa devices. The first 2, an echo and an echo stereo pair, would say they were streaming, but there was no sound. The second 2, a show 10 and a dot, streamed normally. All devices listed the players correctly when asked. Would you look at your logs

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-21 Thread philchillbill
I just fixed a bug I must have introduced a while back which affected fuzzy-matching of player names. You would not have noticed it if you were using the assumed player or just pronouncing your player names correctly. :o If you recently tried to assume a player and were unsuccessful, you can

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-13 Thread philchillbill
While examining the LMS source code around favorites-handling, I discovered an undocumented legacy feature which allows the entire favorites hierarchy to be retrieved with a *single *API call. :) When the 'feedMode:1' flag is added to the ['favorites', 'items'] query, a data-structure is

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-04 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Phil, my initial testing of your revised favourites engine has worked > flawlessly with the added bonus that items appear to fetch and playback > much more quickly. Keep up the good work! Good to hear — thanks :cool: As a tip, playing by dot notation in the top-level

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-04 Thread staresy
raglencross wrote: > Phil, my initial testing of your revised favourites engine has worked > flawlessly with the added bonus that items appear to fetch and playback > much more quickly. Keep up the good work! I echo (no alexa pun intended!) that, a great improvement, good work! location

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-03 Thread raglencross
Phil, my initial testing of your revised approach has worked flawlessly with the added bonus that items appear to fetch and playback much more quickly. Keep up the good work! raglencross's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-03 Thread philchillbill
The new favorites engine is live. The spoken commands all stay the same, it's just the way they are handled that changed. Playing by *dot *notation works directly with the supplied utterance and does not bother with ephemeral IDs any longer. A side effect of this is that if you ask to play a

Re: [SlimDevices: Plugins] [Announce] 'MediaServer' *certified* Alexa skill for LMS

2021-09-02 Thread philchillbill
raglencross wrote: > Thanks, Phil, for looking into this. I am using LMS v8.2 on a RPi 4 with > the Raspian OS. > > At approximately 11:20 am ADT, I attempted to play/stream a few items > using the dot notation, as you requested, and got the base-ID error. > Hopefully, you can now catch this

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